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CommonLaw
August 28, 2024

Common Law Liberalism (Oxford University Press, 2024)

By John Hasnas
In conventional political philosophy, law is understood as consciously created rules that are a necessary mechanism for regulating the excesses of the free market. Although coercive in nature, law is […]
CommonLaw
August 18, 2024

Common Law Liberalism (Oxford University Press, 2024)

By John Hasnas
In conventional political philosophy, law is understood as consciously created rules that are a necessary mechanism for regulating the excesses of the free market. Although coercive in nature, law is […]
CommonLaw
February 16, 2022 • National Review

How Georgetown Is Stifling Speech on Campus

By John Hasnas
The university is implementing the academic analog of a SLAPP suit against Ilya Shapiro. How do you stifle unpopular speech at a place like Georgetown University whose policy states that […]
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July 20, 2021 • Oxford University Press

Business Ethics for Better Behavior

By Jason BrennanWilliam EnglishJohn HasnasPeter Jaworski
A clear and concise roadmap for ethical business behavior using commonsense moral principles.
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December 24, 2019 • Georgetown Law

The Real Danger of the Responsibility Surplus

By John Hasnas
The Responsible Corporate Officer doctrine permits the criminal punishment of an executive who neither participated in nor was aware of a criminal offense commi
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May 30, 2018 • Springer Publishing

Introduction to the Symposium on Crime Without Fault

Edited by John Hasnas
Public Welfare Offenses are crimes that do not require mens rea. Originally limited to regulatory offenses that carried only small penalties, over the decades
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June 1, 2017 • Taylor & Francis Research Insights

The Problem of Punishment

By John Hasnas
This chapter suggests that, in a liberal society, the problem of punishment is not identifying the purpose of criminal punishment, but determining whether crimi
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March 1, 2017 • Oxford Academic

The Phantom Menace of the Responsibility Deficit

By John Hasnas
The strongest argument for the conclusion that corporations should be held morally responsible for their actions has been advanced by Philip Pettit.
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March 31, 2016 • Wall Street Journal

The One Kind of Diversity Colleges Avoid

By John Hasnas
Many universities are redoubling their efforts to diversify their faculties in response to last fall’s wave of protests from student groups representing women a
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March 15, 2016 • The Hill

Nudging Voters

By John Hasnas
A perennial complaint about our democracy is that too large a portion of the electorate is poorly informed about important political issues.
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March 15, 2014 • Social Science Research Network

Lobbying and Self-Defense

By John Hasnas
Lobbying consists in the effort to influence the decision of government policy makers.
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